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james_pm··on The new iPad mini
$1,099 CAD for 256GB. Yeah, no.
james_pm··on Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes
Fired it up to check my own app (RunnerCast) and it looks fine. The Liquid Glass menu moves from the bottom to the right side automatically both on the inner and outer screens. If you already had a layout that worked for iOS and iPadOS, things adapt fine to the inside screen and when you go split screen with two apps, the layout adapts nicely. I don't think I'll need to do a thing.

I've also noticed a flurry of recent app updates from some of the bigger apps (MLB, NYTimes, etc.) to switch to the Liquid Glass menu which I assume Apple strongly suggested they do prior to the Duo launch.

james_pm··on Cursor is now a part of SpaceX
Will they rebrand as codeX or Xcode? Trouble either way.
james_pm··on Ask HN: My domain registrar rug-pulled me for $3000 [fixed]
I work at Tucows Domains/Hover and we're digging in on what happened here. I've reached out to the OP already via email. tl;dr our support team didn't handle this well at all and we've already issued a full refund.

We are still looking into where the price mismatch found its way into the picture, but that domain is a tiered price domain but it is also "legacy" priced meaning it should renew at something very close to the standard price for a renewal but didn't.

james_pm··on John C. Dvorak has died
Sad news. He was the OG tech grouch. Went way off the deep end with conspiracy crap and right wing nonsense over the last decade, but I always assumed some of that was opportunistic performance. RIP.
james_pm··on Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway
That is exactly how the Halton County Railway Museum near Toronto came to be. A bunch of dudes bought an old streetcar (tram) to save it from the scrappers and built a track on some property to have fun driving it around. https://hcry.org/
james_pm··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
1Password also lets you pick where your data lives - US, Canada or EU. https://support.1password.com/regions/
james_pm··on Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer
Right up there with the Not Just Bikes guy on YouTube who used to talk about how transit-oriented cities are great or would show some positive stuff from somewhere. Now it's just endless videos about how cars suck, cities suck, even a lot of transit sucks. The constant negativity is such a put-off.
james_pm··on Ted Turner has died
The original "Situation Room" concept with Wolf was pulling in all these live feeds from all over the place and reporting on them. Car chase in LA! Train crash in India! Protest in Paris! Let's go live!

They had a web subscription product around 2006 that gave you access to just watch all these raw feeds from CNN Affiliates all over the world. It was like Periscope but all "professional" feeds.

james_pm··on You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
Same. I can identify with the subject matter, but the whole thing was just so off-putting. Trite, sound bites.
james_pm··on Is Slack Down?
Yep. Similar to the other day. Uploads failing. Messages not delivering. Status is obviously hand-updated.
james_pm··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
Kagi search.
james_pm··on Phone searches at the US border hit a record high
Same. No interest in going to that country. We'll continue travel in Canada or throughout Europe as we have over the last year and a bit. We used to go to the US to camp and on family vacations in the winter, but we skipped that last year and this year and have no plans to visit unless the situation changes.
james_pm··on They don't make 'em like that any more: Sony DTC-700 audio DAT player/recorder
I spent many hundreds and maybe thousands of hours using Sony PCM7000 and 7010 Pro DAT recorders and those things were just a sheer joy to use. They were so perfect in basically ever single way.
james_pm··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
I would love something like what Spotify has - private listening. In the meantime, I just go into the YouTube history and remove anything that I don't want to pollute my recommendations. Turning off search history entirely also is good.
james_pm··on Air India flight to London crashes in Ahmedabad with more than 240 onboard
FR24 is also on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/flightradar24.com/post/3lrfwaqs2ls2...
james_pm··on Notion Mail is out
More like "Notion Mail (for Gmail only). Notion Calendar is Google only. Notion Mail is Google only. I guess I shouldn't have expected them to do anything based on standards like IMAP.
james_pm··on SpaceX's Fram2 returns from first-of-its-kind mission around Earth's poles
Soyuz still lands on land. Starliner landed (and will land) on land. Blue Origin's non-orbital ship lands on land.
james_pm··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Long time Garmin watch user here and Garmins are also HORRIBLY crippled on iOS. Can I respond to a text message? No. I can clear the notification, but that is it. Apple Watch has far greater abilities than any other smart watch. That is the issue.
james_pm··on Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux
Orion for macOS is still pretty buggy and, in my experience, a bit too frustrating to use as my default browser. I want to use it and pay the $5/month even though I don't use it all the time. It's close to being good, but not quite there yet.
james_pm··on Discover the IndieWeb, one blog post at a time
In a similar vein: https://kagi.com/smallweb
james_pm··on How to delete your Facebook account
Same. I have Instagram and Threads accounts, but I tried to get Facebook back about 5 years after deleting it and immediately got asked for ID and then was banned with no appeal possible. I guess they take deleting your account very personally.
james_pm··on California teacher dies from suspected rabid bat bite
Do not ever touch bats. Never ever. If you do touch a bat, go to the ER and tell them you touched a bat.
james_pm··on Access your Raspberry Pi without a public IP
Or just use https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/connect/
james_pm··on Employees Describe an Environment of Paranoia and Fear Inside Automattic
For anyone working at Blind - PGP encryption on emails as an option please.
james_pm··on Sea robins use leg-like fins to taste, navigate seafloor, researchers discover
The latest episode of CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks had a very excellent segment on this odd creature (amongst other topics). It's a fantastic weekly science show available as a podcast.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/sep-28-plastic-we-need-to-un...

james_pm··on NASA announces Boeing Starliner crew will return on SpaceX Crew-9
The suit is part of the spacecraft. In the case of Dragon, it pressurizes, inflates and deflates at times depending on the phase of the mission.
james_pm··on The Google Bike: An In-Depth Review
Lol. The part when he mentioned that Google was smart to have crews to reposition bikes when product teams like the Stadia team would just disappear from the campus.
james_pm··on Elon Musk Hits OpenAI with "Breach of Contract" Lawsuit for Abandoning Mission
Replying back "Agreed on all" to an email that is basically "Here's what I'm thinking" is a contract? That's one heck of a precedent.
james_pm··on Wendy's will experiment with dynamic surge pricing for food in 2025
Wait until they realize that they can tie this AI into facial recognition at those big screen kiosks and they change the prices based on the appearance of the person ordering.
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